A comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-East Lancashire. The heart is the great industrial city of Manchester, with its proud municipal buildings and pioneering mills and transport structures, offset by some of Britain's most innovative new a...

Transport buildings – railway stations, airport terminals, bus and coach stations, motorway service areas, filling stations, and garages – are such a part of everyday scenery they are easily overlooked. This book is the first to take a close look at...

This fourth paperback "City Guide in the Buildings of England" series covers Bristol, for many centuries England's second port, and in architectural terms still amongst its richest cities. Outstanding buildings remain of every century from Norman tim...

London's modest eighteenth-century houses – those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London – can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survi...

From the eighteenth to the early twentieth century Liverpool was one of the most prosperous towns in Britain, and one of the greatest ports in the world; for many of its citizens it was also a place of extreme poverty. Economic success is reflected i...

Chetham's School and Library is an exceptional example of fifteenth-century collegiate architecture: the best preserved building of its date and type in England. Located in the heart of Manchester, Chetham's originally lodged the college of fifteenth...

This authoritative guide to the southwest corner of Wales by three local experts encompasses a wide sweep of history, from the rugged prehistoric remains that stud the distinctive windswept landscape overlooking the Atlantic to distinguished 20th-cen...

This volume – the first to focus solely on follies and garden buildings in Ireland – recreates in word and image the wonder of these architectural oddities. James Howley examines buildings mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries and from all four pro...

This book is the indispensable guide to the history of architecture in Venice, encompassing the city's fascinating variety of buildings from ancient times to the present day. Completely updated, this edition of Deborah Howard's classic volume (first...

This wide-ranging book explores in great detail British medieval houses, from humble to grand. Anthony Quiney synthesizes archaeological, architectural and historical findings to present a comprehensive survey of houses throughout Britain from the ea...